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ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. Pnuwuma mr. Washington, 0.0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. AUGHTERLONIE, OF NEWARK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE W.AVERELL, OF MONTOLAIR, NE\V JERSEY.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,904,dated April 27,1886.

Application filed February 6, 1886. Serial No. 191,064. (ModeL) To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. AUCHTER- LONIE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paper Boxes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apaper box of the class known as knockdownboxes.

The novel and peculiar features of my improved box are pointed out inthe following specification and claims, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a perspective viewof my box partly closed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same ona smaller scale than the previous figure, the line 00 m, Fig. 1-,indicating the plane of section. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on the line 3y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top view of the blank prepared for folding tocomplete the box.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the part of the blank which, when folded, formsthe upper side of the box, as presented in Fig. 1. The part A has endflaps, B B, which can be folded down along the dotted lines 1 1.Thelinesl 1 there and elsewhere on the blank indicate the places wherethe blank has been scored by a proper tool to form joints, which enablethe parts to be folded upon each other. The end flaps, B B, are madetapering, as shown in the drawings. The positions of thelines 1 1determine the length of the part A, and consequently determine thelength of the box. The end flaps, B B, are bent down at right angles tothe part A when the blank is folded up to form the box. Adjoining thepart A is the part G, which is of equal length with the part A, and iscomprised between the cuts 2 2,which separate the part 0 from theflanges D D. The part 0 forms one of the sides of the box when the blankis folded up to complete the box, and consequently its width determinesthe height of the box between its top and bottom. The part 0 isseparated from the part A on one side by a scored joint, 1, and on itsother side from the part E by asimilar scored joint. The part E willform the bottom of the box as the box is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, beingequal in width and length to the part A. The bottom part, E, has endflaps, F F, which are connected to it by scored joints 1 1. The outerside of the bottom part, E, is connected by the scored joint 1 to thepart G, which forms another side of the completed box, and which has onits outer edge a flap, H, which is connected to it by a similar scoredjoint 1, that enables the said flap to be folded under the outer edge ofthe part A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, where it is united to the undersurface of part A by paste, cement, or any suitable fastening. The partG, like the part 0, is separated at its ends by cuts 2 2 from flanges DD, which are connected by scored joints 1 1 with the ends of the flaps FF. The flanges D are curved on their outer edges,so that they canreadily be passed into the ends of the box between the sides 0 and G andthe edges of the tapering end flaps, B, when the box is made up and isto be closed at its ends, the construction being such that the forwardor free ends of the flaps D enter readily into the angular space whichis left between the tapering edges of the flaps D and the sides 0G ofthe box, and as the parts of the flaps (marked 3) enter said space itrequires more force to insert them, because the upper part of the spaceis narrower than the lower part by reason of the tapering edges of theflaps B, and consequently when the flaps B are fully inserted they areheld in place automatically by reason of frictional contact.

The flap F and flanges D D compose whatl call the swinging head, andsaid head,when its flanges D D are pushed into the box, covers theswinging flap B and effectually closes the box. The sector-like flangesD should be made a little shorter along their edges 2 than along theedge 1 for the sake of convenience in inserting their free ends into thebox.

The tapering form of the space which is left between the sides of thebox and the edges of the flaps B is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1at the left-hand side of the flap B.

The box is constructed from a single blank, and can be folded into acompact and flat con dition for transportation when the swinging headsare withdrawn from the body ofthebox, having tapering flaps B at theends of the top thus having the characteristics of what is A, theswinging head F D D at the ends of the known as a knockdown box. bottomE, and the sides 0 G, and the pastinghat I claim as new, and desire tosecureby flap H, substantially as shown and described.

5 Letters Patent, is In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my 1. Thetapering flaps B at the ends of the hand and seal in the presence of twosubscribtop A, in combination with the swinging head ing Witnesses. v

F D D, formed at the ends of the bottom E, M. J. AUCHTERLONIE. [L. s]

and with the sides C G, substantially asshown \Vitnesses:

IO and described. J. VAN SANTVOORD,

2. A paper box made from a single blank A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr.

